11:01 AM,
Jan. 27, 2014

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MUNCIE - After a long weekend of battling snow drifts, Delaware County Highway Department crews are happy with results of Sunday's relative "warm-up."

From Friday's snow, through Saturday and into Sunday , county roads were prone to drifting as high as 4 to 6 feet deep, according to Chris McCammon, highway department superintendent. The result in some places was snow piled 8 to 10 feet high alongside plowed roads, and the fear was that Sunday night's heavy winds would blow those piles back onto roadways.

Instead, Sunday's temperature increase up to the low 40s resulted in just enough melting ...